Is bud blast of big-box store Phalaenopsis genetic?
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Comments (38)Boy, did I get deleted? I cant find my posted experience at the big stores. I went to Lowes and all of their bulbs are bloomed and done IN the boxes, at $8.98 a box! No markdown. Then I went to Target and I manage to get 2 RedLion huge bulbs in great shape, for $7 total!, in a jute bag, unique. Both have 2 bloom stalks peeking out of the bulbs. The ones that they put on sale in their weekly ads, in ceramic pots and soil for $7 each were all bloomed out in the boxes and looked like Lowes bulbs, basically dead in the box. Talk about a rip off. Some 'Sale'...$7 plain old Red Lion,Minervas, all bloomed out in the boxes,and the bulbs starting to rot in the boxes. Luckily I am not 'hoarding Papilios from all over the USA,from EBay. I am getting 3 HUGE ones now. The first one arrived yesterday, with a peeking bloom stalk,over 24cm,and rock hard AND a bulblet on it! That was a great buy. The next one says the bulb is 32cm! I won it last night. I tripled checked with the seller about the size, I never had one THAT big. She promised me it is that big! And it is forced and ready to bloom, at least 1 stalk is showing now. I managed to get it for less than the huge one that arrived already. And that one is beautiful. Then I have a 3rd one coming, at 22-24cm with a bud stalk peeking out as well. Getting them from all over the USA. Some say they are the 'new' type that have 4 blooms per bloom stalk, instead of only 2 flowers. And I bought an 'EverGreen' from Park Seed! For only $10.69,plus $9 shipping! Half the price I was going to pay from a catalog. And then my big 'Green Dragon' bulb is suppose to be shipped this week. So i will have a flush of unusual colors and types in a few months. Plus two Red Lions with 4 bloom stalks, maybe right at Christmas. But the big store 'deals' are a joke! At least in Ft.Lauderdale. Be careful, open the boxes....See MoreWinter Blast
Comments (47)Without even a lawn violet, I'm a little discouraged here . . . I was noticing that the "normal" high is 54°F and was thinking that we haven't had it that warm yet this year. But, I see that the nice day we had about 2 weeks ago (1 nice day) topped out above that. Getting to normal would be a relief. The snow that fell yesterday AM melted almost entirely but it is snowing again, blowing horizontal . . . This is shaping up like 2008 when the lack of sunlight slowed growth in the greenhouse and spiked my heating bill. We had a "normal" May - encouraging "normal" garden planting. Then frigid weather set in during early June that killed the melons and more-or-less crippled all the warm-season plants that survived. The exception was tomatoes. I've yet to figure out why 2008 was such a good year for tomatoes! The Summer of 2008 managed to get back to no better than "normal." Nothing to do about it. It's no good crying over spilt milk. No use crying in my beer. Whimpering and complaining won't make it go away. Gotta accept reality if that's the way it's going to be. It can't be helped. Yep, it's shaping up to be an excellent tomato year! digitâ«Sâ¼...See Moregenetically engineered basil seeds? generations of bitter!
Comments (17)Hi, Sorry I did not reply back. I held my annual tomato party yesterday so between that and other things, I never stopped back. About the legitimate sources, I find that often some people I know post from a fringe what I like to call hippy dippy trippy websites as opposed to say CBS or the New York Times. The bigger sources may still make mistakes, but smaller overly gung-ho ones do not have the resources to check a story and may jump the gun and publish something to be debunked later. Like there was a recent super weed study. A friend published from a site I've never heard of. So I did a quick search and found the info on a few well known places. So I picked a well written one with quotes from farmers and posted that. I did google "GMO Basil" to see what came up, and you are right all that all these places come up "Non-GMO" Basil! But it isn't Monsanto, many companies unfortunately like to make money off people's fears. I go to many a site where I'll see in bold letters NON_GMO SEED!!, and that drives me nuts. It is like the Patriot Seed site. That one plays off of people's GMO fears, doomsday fears, seems USA proud, etc. Or there are some seed companies that throw religious stuff on their pages to make themselves look Christian and make more money. Sometimes people spend the money and never receive seeds. There's even a place that sell tomato seeds that advertises most everything as RARE! They are known to change seed names/description to sell more seed. Oh and even advertise them as organic, but they have no certifications. I just thought of another place with an organic sounding name, but none of their stuff is actually certified organic, and they charge way way too much for seed. Unfortunately there are people with shady business practices and scammers everywhere. About buying GMO free processed products, I often forget that other areas of the country do not have excellent stores like Wegmans that have designated non GMO areas where you can buy products and not worry about that. Shopping in good places like that does help. You can find lists on the internet of companies and products. I'm attaching Green Peace's list because it also includes non GMO stuff as well. All of this reminds me of the time I saw a lady in Wegmans flipping out over the very large radishes that were on display. She was screaming about GMO radishes being for sale and how could Wegmans do that. Since she had never seen such big radishes, she assumed they were GMO, and no one could convince her otherwise. They were just a large variety like German Giant. So I guess my point is it is good to have a healthy dose of skepticism, but not hysteria. : ) I have not seen the movie in its entirely so thank you for the link! Remy Here is a link that might be useful: GMO Shopping Guide...See MoreIs bud blast of big-box store Phalaenopsis genetic?
Comments (14)New orchids are produced two ways when it comes to mass production. You have seed crosses where plants are raised from seed, each plant having different characteristics and many being inferior in growth and flowers. These are much less desirable hybrids. Named hybrids are most often selections from seed raised plants, plants that show strong growth or desirable flower characteristics. The most desirable plants are reproduced by tissue culture, essentially cloning that one plant and producing hundreds or thousands of identical plants. The plants mass produced for sale in big box stores are not necessarily high quality, could be seed grown plants of questionable quality, often sold without name tags so you can't even research the plants parentage. Also remember plants will drop flowers if exposed to ethylene gas from ripening fruit, some plants are very sensitive. Just something to consider. Mike...See MoreUser
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